Oak Bend Medical Center

We want to point out that this nursing home really outperformed its overall grade in the area of inspections. In fact, it received a nearly flawless inspection report this year. As a result, it received one of our highest grades in this area with an A+. Inspection grades are based on pieces of information located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Nursing homes that score well in this area have very few deficiencies on those reports. Most importantly, these facilities should not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with risks to patient safety. While this nursing home had a few deficiencies on its government inspection report, none of them were major deficiencies based on CMS' deficiency scale. Remember that deficiency-free inspections are uncommon in the industry.

This facility also was given an impressive short-term care score. As a matter of fact, we gave them a B in that area, which happens to be one of our more favorable scores. In the category of short-term care, we attempt to evaluate measures of a facility's rehabilitation. We look at a facility's skilled nursing services, such as the ones performed by registered nurses and physical, occupational and other therapists. Unfortunately, it does not look like this nursing home provided registered nurse or physical therapist staffing data. Finally, we assessed the percentage of residents who were able to return to the community from this facility. We found that 7.4 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home.

The next area we assessed is long-term care, where this nursing home was awarded a C in this category. In determining these long-term care grades, we assess the nursing home's ability to maintain its permanent residents' health and quality of life. After assessing the quantity of care provided by aids and other staff, we next considered the nursing home's vaccination record. It doesn't look like this facility provided information on its vaccination levels. Finally, this nursing home was able to limit hospitalizations. Indeed, it had only 0 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.

The next category we looked at is nursing. It received a lowly F for this area, which is a bottom of the barrel grade. This is clearly a significant concern. The nursing grade considers several data points. The most heavily weighted factor is the quantity of hours nurses spent with residents. With just 0.2 hours of nursing care per patient each day, this facility's nurse staffing levels were quite a bit below average. Lastly, to round out our nursing grade, we turn to some quality-focused statistics in rounding out our nursing ratings. Specifically, we look at the percent of residents who sustained pressure ulcers and major falls. We view these areas as reliable indicators of the quality of nursing care, since better care tends to reduce these problems.